Showing all posts tagged Startups
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What’s the Cannabis Industry Missing? Engineers
I came across a Kickstarter campaign recently by a Denver-based startup Edn, short for Environmental Data Network. What
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5 Employee Metrics Vital to Growing Your Startup
Your organization is growing fast. If you’re going to keep up with the changes, you’ll need the right employee data and
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TransitScreen Looks to Keep Up With Fast-Changing Transportation Landscape
The Washington D.C. area has a deceptively large number of transportation options.
Metro, bikeshare, and city
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Startups: Creating Your Early Team is Like Drafting for Fantasy Football
Mike Collett, CoFounder and Managing Partner at Promus Ventures, and apparent fantasy football fan, shared this blog
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‘Erec Makes a Fire’ Teaches Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship to Kids
It's never too early to start getting your kids passionate about entrepreneurship. Not only does it encourage free-thinking,
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500 Startups Helped Rover Position Themselves for the Future
In mid-February John Coombs unveiled his startup, Rover, to the world. Still relatively young, they’ve just graduated as
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St. Louis Wants to Give Agriculture Technology Startups Viable Resources
In an effort keep the St. Louis tech ecosystem growing, The Yield Lab and Arch Grants announced that they will be partnering
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Toronto Startup Uplette Demos at 500 Startups Demo Day
Today is Demo Day for Batch 10 of 500 Startups, and after having trended on Product Hunt, mobile marketing solution Uplette
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Meet 500 Startups’s Female-Led Startup from the Middle East: Silkroad Images
On Tuesday, Riham Mahafzah will take the stage at 500 Startups demo day to pitch her startup, Silkroad Images. After demo
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17 Things Only Accelerator Graduates Understand
Accelerators are the entrepreneurial equivalent of band camp - away from reality, stuck with your peers for all hours of the
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Denver Startup Week: The Intersection of Community and Entrepreneurial Spirit
This is a sponsored post by Denver Startup Week, and we’d like to thank them for all of their support!
Pure magic is
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5 Innovative Business Incubator Strategies
So you want to join a business incubator? Here are 5 key strategies to help you compare options.
1. Stake it to make
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LivingSocial’s New CEO is Former Shopping.com CEO and eBay Executive Gautam Thakar
In a blog post just published this afternoon, the DC-based deals company LivingSocial has announced its appointment
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Top Stories of the Week: Kill the Elevator Pitch, Obama Visits DC’s 1776
Did you miss out on one (or five) of Tech Cocktail's posts from this week? It's okay. We want to let you know that we
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A Look at the Latin American Tech Startup Scene in Miami: An Insider Perspective
Miami is quickly becoming a startup hub for international tech companies. Latin American businesses especially have become a
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Obama Visited DC’s 1776 Today [PHOTOS]
President Obama spent this morning at DC startup campus 1776, meeting entrepreneurs and giving a talk about jobs and
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SoundBetter’s 4 Pieces of Advice When Considering That 500 Startups Application
With an acceptance rate roughly between 3 and 5 percent, getting into 500 Startups's accelerator program is - to say the
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HelloWallet Founder to Keynote Tonight’s American Technology Awards Showcase at DC’s 1776
Tonight in Washington, D.C., TechAmerica will hold the inaugural American Technology Awards (ATAs) Showcase at incubator
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CancerIQ and MediSafe Win Challenge Cup Festival Health Startup Semifinals
Last night the Challenge Cup health startup semi-final competition was held as part of the week-long Challenge Cup
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Top 10 Stories of the Week: The Hottest Startups of 1776’s Challenge Festival
Did you miss out on one (or five) of Tech Cocktail's posts from this week? It's okay. We want to let you know that we
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The Challenge Festival Conference: How Startups Can Revolutionize Regulated Industries
After six months of touring 16 cities around the world and discovering 64 of the most innovative startups in the categories
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